THE EYES IN THIS GAME ARE CREEPY OMG. Like, just in general creepy but then yeah you get some moments when it's like ... downright scary XD
Hahaha I kinda don't like Alistair very much. He's really annoying. People who use humor to cover their feelings or whatever are super annoying to me (well, depending on the type of humor). I mean, I can appreciate what they're doing, and I understand... but... they just... make me so uncomfortable and irritated and Alistair is like nonstop. I have theories of why it bothers me so much (like personal history stuff) but I don't want to go into it XD
Well, Isky at least is understanding that these people are on hard times + have been manipulated into blaming Grey Wardens for their problems. He realized he had to fight them, but he thinks the circumstances are still sad. He doesn't agree with what they did but he feels bad that they had to live a life that led to that. He spends a lot of time thinking (and thus sorrowfully staring into space) XDD
(BTW another thing that really bothers me about the choices in this game that I forgot to mention in the Isky Adventures I think is that it's almost never presented as an option to respect the church and its followers. Even with Leliana, you would have like 4 different ways to mock her or insult her, and one way to just kind of... ignore what she was saying as if she were insane...)
If you want a spoiler-free first impression of Setsuna (just stop reading here if you don't want to hear it): As far as I've gotten (10 hours in now), it is very generic and lazy. The story is completely throwaway textbook cliches one after another. The main storyline is pretty much a direct (and more generic somehow) ripoff of another game you've played. Assets are reused way too much and it makes everything look the same. Graphics are super gorgeous at some points and then really boring and ugly at others. As for the gameplay, there's a lot of really interesting mechanics (though none of them original, but put together really well) that would be really fun... if the battles weren't so mind-numbingly easy that you didn't even need to use them. You can easily get by just using the attack command for the entire game for as far as I've played. The only reason I even use the combos and stuff is because it makes it go faster. You can kill enemies in different ways to get different drops (which is critical to getting new abilities and stuff) but this is just an exercise in tedium than anything.
It's been... largely disappointing... BUT!!!! It feels like any moment now it's going to pick up. I don't know what it is, but something about the game tells me that I just "haven't gotten there yet" and eventually it's going to become great.
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THE EYES IN THIS GAME ARE CREEPY OMG. Like, just in general creepy but then yeah you get some moments when it's like ... downright scary XD
Hahaha I kinda don't like Alistair very much. He's really annoying. People who use humor to cover their feelings or whatever are super annoying to me (well, depending on the type of humor). I mean, I can appreciate what they're doing, and I understand... but... they just... make me so uncomfortable and irritated and Alistair is like nonstop. I have theories of why it bothers me so much (like personal history stuff) but I don't want to go into it XD
Well, Isky at least is understanding that these people are on hard times + have been manipulated into blaming Grey Wardens for their problems. He realized he had to fight them, but he thinks the circumstances are still sad. He doesn't agree with what they did but he feels bad that they had to live a life that led to that. He spends a lot of time thinking (and thus sorrowfully staring into space) XDD
(BTW another thing that really bothers me about the choices in this game that I forgot to mention in the Isky Adventures I think is that it's almost never presented as an option to respect the church and its followers. Even with Leliana, you would have like 4 different ways to mock her or insult her, and one way to just kind of... ignore what she was saying as if she were insane...)
If you want a spoiler-free first impression of Setsuna (just stop reading here if you don't want to hear it): As far as I've gotten (10 hours in now), it is very generic and lazy. The story is completely throwaway textbook cliches one after another. The main storyline is pretty much a direct (and more generic somehow) ripoff of another game you've played. Assets are reused way too much and it makes everything look the same. Graphics are super gorgeous at some points and then really boring and ugly at others. As for the gameplay, there's a lot of really interesting mechanics (though none of them original, but put together really well) that would be really fun... if the battles weren't so mind-numbingly easy that you didn't even need to use them. You can easily get by just using the attack command for the entire game for as far as I've played. The only reason I even use the combos and stuff is because it makes it go faster. You can kill enemies in different ways to get different drops (which is critical to getting new abilities and stuff) but this is just an exercise in tedium than anything.
It's been... largely disappointing... BUT!!!! It feels like any moment now it's going to pick up. I don't know what it is, but something about the game tells me that I just "haven't gotten there yet" and eventually it's going to become great.